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Superman & Stetson Kennedy crushed the Klan in '46; Colbert & S. Park can crush MAGA in '26. [1]
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Date: 2025-07-24
History rhymes. In post-WWII America, the Ku Klux Klan sought to regain the political power it wielded in the 1930s. Activist Stetson Kennedy and the producers of the megahit Superman radio show foiled them.
A 2020 reboot of Superman’s pro-tolerance crusade by Gene Luen Yang, New Super-Man, granted Man of Steel’s powers to his Chinese incarnation.
Superman Smashes the Klan, tells how DC’s first superhero rescues a Chinese-American boy when he’s kidnapped by hooded white supremacists.
Superman’s still in the fight against bigotry.
But now he has even more powerful allies: Stephen Colbert and the producers of the South Park satirical Cartoon Network TV show.
Both of those franchises have joined the knock-down, drag-out battle against MAGA, the KKK’s 21st Century demon spawn. The South Park producers have a $1.5 billion payment from Paramount to fend off Trumpworld litigation.
The first episode of South Park’s 27th season was an open invitation for Trump lawfare:
South Park previously featured the late Saddam Hussein canoodling with Satan in the same format. In this episode, Satan accuses Trump of being just like his tyrant ex-boyfriend.
That scene of Satan and Trump sexytime is, incredibly, one of the milder jabs the South Park episode takes at the current President of the United States.
Trump’s small penis is featured repeatedly in the South Park episode, in both cartoon an live-action sequences.
Meanwhile, late-night emcee Stephen Colbert pledged to land months of haymakers against Trump.
Both Colbert and South Park have actionable grievances against career swindler, vexatious litigant, and 34-count felon Trump.
Paramount cancelled ratings-leader Colbert as of 2026, so as to gain Trump’s approval of their merger with Skydance. And South Park’s record-valuable $1.5 billion renewal contract with Paramount was delayed for months by Trump-appointed stooges on the Federal Communications Commission.
Rewind to 1946. After a lull during World War II, the KKK was back with a vengeance.
Klan membership grew quickly, and its political clout kept pace.
Kennedy, who had worked as a writer for the New Deal’s Federal Writers Project and various anti-fascist magazines, infiltrated the group.
Kennedy learned the KKK’s cartoonish secrets, including its weekly passwords, silly nomenclature, and flamboyant handshakes, at weekly meetings. Law enforcement agencies in Georgia, where Florida native Kennedy was living, refused to use his information. State and local police agencies were riddled with Klan members.
Then as now, white supremacist groups fronted for other criminal enterprises, including narcotrafficking, human trafficking, and murder conspiracies.
Kennedy turned to the producers of the hit radio show.
The 1946 show’s available via YouTube. Superman fights the KKK. Bigotry & hate were not accepted then and they will not be accepted now.
The 16-episode series pits the Man of Steel against the Klan of the Fiery Cross.
The daily episodes laid bare the KKK’s code words, rituals, criminal wrongdoing, and vile ethos.
Stripped of its mystique, the Klan withered.
Recruits vanished and membership plummeted. By 1948, people attended Klan rallies just to mock them.
We can and must do it again.
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